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SAP Press Financial Accounting with SAP S4HANA
Book SynopsisRunning accounting in SAP S/4HANA Finance? This is your hands-on guide! Learn how financial accounting works with the Universal Journal and understand key organizational structures.
£60.29
MIT Press Ltd Monoidal Category Theory
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, cutting-edge, and highly readable textbook that makes category theory and monoidal category theory accessible to students across the sciences.Category theory is a powerful framework that began in mathematics but has since expanded to encompass several areas of computing and science, with broad applications in many fields. In this comprehensive text, Noson Yanofsky makes category theory accessible to those without a background in advanced mathematics. Monoidal Category Theorydemonstrates the expansive uses of categories, and in particular monoidal categories, throughout the sciences. The textbook starts from the basics of category theory and progresses to cutting edge research. Each idea is defined in simple terms and then brought alive by many real-world examples before progressing to theorems and uncomplicated proofs. Richly guided exercises ground readers in concrete computation and application. The result is a highly readable and engaging textbook that will open the world of category theory to many. Makes category theory accessible to non-math majors Uses easy-to-understand language and emphasizes diagrams over equations Incremental, iterative approach eases students into advanced concepts A series of embedded mini-courses cover such popular topics as quantum computing, categorical logic, self-referential paradoxes, databases and scheduling, and knot theory Extensive exercises and examples demonstrate the broad range of applications of categorical structures Modular structure allows instructors to fit text to the needs of different courses Instructor resources include slides
£72.25
Third Editions The Heart Of A Plague Tale: A Visual Making-Of
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SAP Press Security and Authorizations for SAP Business
Book SynopsisLearn what it takes to protect SAP Business Technology Platform! Walk through the cloud security mechanisms of SAP BTP (formerly SAP Cloud Platform). With information on safeguarding key cloud services, this guide will leave you confident in your cloud system’s security!
£77.60
MIT Press Cloud Computing revised and updated edition MIT
Book SynopsisAn updated, revised, and comprehensive overview of the concepts related to cloud computing, including recent applications, innovations, and its future evolution.In this Essential Knowledge volume, Nayan B. Ruparelia provides an updated and revised version of Cloud Computing, first published in 2016, to address not only the fact that cloud computing has become a ubiquitous part of mainstream computing since then but also has made strides in other key aspects of the technology’s development, including: cloud computing’s history, updated security fundamentals that provide examples of Identity and Access Management (IAM) use that illustrate the difference between on-premise (i.e., conventional) security and cloud-based security implementation and Security Information and Event Management SIEM), an updated discussion of data migration to the cloud, a new chapter on data integrity, cloud native computing,
£14.39
SAP Press Advanced Variant Configuration with SAP S4HANA
Book SynopsisTable of Contents ... Foreword ... 17 ... Preface ... 21 Part I ... Basic Principles of Variant Configuration ... 25 1 ... Product Configuration with SAP ... 27 1.1 ... Generation Change: From SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA ... 28 1.2 ... Generation Change: From LO-VC to AVC ... 32 1.3 ... Which SAP Configurators Are Available? ... 39 1.4 ... Product Configuration with AVC in an End-to-End Process ... 41 1.5 ... Managing Product Diversity ... 47 1.6 ... Manufacturing Scenarios for Configurable Products ... 50 1.7 ... Summary ... 52 2 ... The Path from LO-VC to AVC in SAP S/4HANA ... 53 2.1 ... AVC and LO-VC: An Either-Or? ... 53 2.2 ... Ways of Transformation ... 57 2.3 ... Basic Principles of the Transformation ... 58 2.4 ... Transition Workspaces ... 60 2.5 ... Transition Workbench ... 62 2.6 ... Comparing the Results ... 67 2.7 ... Transferring the Material Variants ... 70 2.8 ... An Exemplary Approach to Switching from VC to AVC (Greenfield versus Brownfield) ... 72 2.9 ... Summary ... 76 Part II ... Basics of Modeling ... 77 3 ... Creating Your First Configurable Material ... 79 3.1 ... Basic Principles ... 80 3.2 ... A First Example ... 82 3.3 ... The Configurable Material Master ... 84 3.4 ... Variant Classes, Characteristics, and Configuration Profiles ... 86 3.5 ... The Valuation Interface of the Extended Variant Configuration ... 90 3.6 ... Object Dependencies for Planning and Production ... 94 3.7 ... Configuration and Prices ... 97 3.8 ... Summary ... 100 4 ... Master Data in the Modeling Context ... 101 4.1 ... Variant Configuration Modeling Environment ... 101 4.2 ... AVC Simulation Environment ... 110 4.3 ... Tools from the Classification System ... 119 4.4 ... Material Master, Bill of Materials, and Routing of the Configurable Material ... 145 4.5 ... Configuration Profile and Configuration Scenarios ... 162 4.6 ... Characteristic Groups as User Interface Design ... 197 4.7 ... Summary ... 202 5 ... Object Dependencies ... 203 5.1 ... Basic Principles ... 203 5.2 ... Variant Tables ... 228 5.3 ... Object Dependencies for Interactive Configuration (High-Level Configuration) ... 240 5.4 ... Object Dependencies for a Bill of Materials and Routing (Low-Level Configuration) ... 271 5.5 ... Summary ... 281 6 ... Pricing ... 283 6.1 ... Pricing in Sales ... 283 6.2 ... Pricing on the Basis of Sales Order Costing ... 295 6.3 ... Pricing in Purchasing ... 296 6.4 ... Microservice for Pricing on SAP Business Technology Platform ... 306 6.5 ... Summary ... 311 7 ... Material Variants ... 313 7.1 ... Material Master ... 314 7.2 ... Bill of Materials ... 319 7.3 ... Routing ... 323 7.4 ... Pricing ... 328 7.5 ... Variant Matching ... 328 7.6 ... Summary ... 336 Part III ... Integration ... 337 8 ... Integrating Variant Configuration in Platforms via Knowledge Bases and Runtime Versions ... 339 8.1 ... Architecture ... 339 8.2 ... Master Data for Configuration Integration: Knowledge Bases and Runtime Versions ... 342 8.3 ... Tips for Generating Knowledge Base Runtime Versions ... 346 8.4 ... Instructions for (Re)generating Runtime Versions ... 365 8.5 ... Using the Configuration Microservice in SAP BTP ... 373 8.6 ... Variant Configuration in SAP Commerce Cloud ... 375 8.7 ... Integrated Variant Configuration in SAP CPQ ... 379 8.8 ... Summary ... 386 9 ... New Integration Aspects for Variant Configuration ... 387 9.1 ... Master Data Distribution with Product Data Replication ... 387 9.2 ... SAP Variant Configuration with SAP Teamcenter ... 424 9.3 ... Requirements Management and Documentation in Modeling: SAP Enterprise Product Development ... 432 9.4 ... Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Configurable Products ... 437 9.5 ... Integrating AVC with SAP Workflow Management ... 447 9.6 ... Two-Tier Scenario: Cross-System Procurement of Configured Products ... 453 9.7 ... Summary ... 456 10 ... Solutions from SAP Partners ... 457 10.1 ... 3D Configuration ... 457 10.2 ... Artificial Intelligence-Optimized Processing of Customer Requests ... 470 10.3 ... Variant Table Contents on SAP Business Technology Platform ... 482 10.4 ... Variant Configuration with Machine Learning ... 492 10.5 ... Hybrid System Configuration, End-to-End Automation, and API-Based Integration with SAP Solutions ... 503 10.6 ... Summary ... 513 Part IV ... Industry Best Practices ... 517 11 ... Case Study: Transformation from LO-VC to AVC ... 519 11.1 ... AVC Preliminary Study ... 519 11.2 ... Best Practice Transformation: A Real-Life Example ... 526 11.3 ... Summary ... 532 12 ... SAP Variant Configuration Communities ... 533 12.1 ... Configuration Working Group ... 533 12.2 ... The DSAG Variant Configuration Working Group ... 543 12.3 ... SAP AVC Customer Co-Innovation Council ... 546 12.4 ... Summary ... 547 ... The Authors ... 549 ... Authors ... 549 ... Contributors ... 550 ... Foreword Authors ... 557 ... Index ... 559
£74.69
SAP Press Transportation Management with SAP S4HANA
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MIT Press Ltd Dream Machine
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£24.30
MIT Press Ltd Artificial General Intelligence
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MIT Press Ltd Cryptography
Book SynopsisA broad introduction to cryptography what it is, how it really works, what its future holds, and why every informed citizen should understand its basics.
£14.44
MIT Press Ltd ChatGPT and the Future of AI
Book SynopsisAn insightful exploration of Chat GPT and other advanced AI systems?how we got here, where we?re headed, and what it all means for how we interact with the world.In ChatGPT and the Future of AI, the sequel to The Deep Learning Revolution, Terrence Sejnowski offers a nuanced exploration of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and what their future holds. How should we go about understanding LLMs? Do these language models truly understand what they are saying? Or is it possible that what appears to be intelligence in LLMs may be a mirror that merely reflects the intelligence of the interviewer? In this book, Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational approaches to understanding brain function, answers all our urgent questions about this astonishing new technology.Sejnowski begins by describing the debates surrounding LLMs? comprehension of language and exploring the notions of ?thinking? and ?intelligence.? He then takes a deep dive into the historical evolution of language models, focusing on the role of transformers, the correlation between computing power and model size, and the intricate mathematics shaping LLMs. Sejnowski also provides insight into the historical roots of LLMs and discusses the potential future of AI, focusing on next-generation LLMs inspired by nature and the importance of developing energy-efficient technologies.Grounded in Sejnowski?s dual expertise in AI and neuroscience, ChatGPT and the Future of AI is the definitive guide to understanding the intersection of AI and human intelligence.
£16.80
MIT Press Probabilistic Machine Learning
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£123.25
SAP Press Business Partners in SAP S4HANA
Book SynopsisThe distinction between ‘customers’ and ‘vendors’ is now a relic of the past - jump into the future with this all-in-one guide to business partners in SAP S/4HANA! With guidance on maintaining and validating business partner data, this is the only book on business partners you’ll ever need!
£67.49
SAP Press SAP S4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing
Book SynopsisPreparing for your production planning and manufacturing exam? Make the grade with this SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing certification study guide! From supply chain planning to process and production orders, this guide will review the key technical and functional knowledge you need to pass with flying colours.
£60.29
SAP Press SAP Access Control
Book SynopsisManage on-premise user access with this comprehensive guide to SAP Access Control. Begin with step-by-step installation and configuration instructions. Then implement key SAP Access Control modules, including access risk analysis, emergency access management, and access request management.
£85.60
Taylor & Francis Ltd Meaningful Futures with Robots
Book SynopsisSoon, robots will leave the factories and make their way into living rooms, supermarkets, and care facilities. They will cooperate with humans in everyday life, taking on more than just practical tasks. How should they communicate with us? Do they need eyes, a screen, or arms? Should they resemble humans? Or may they enrich social situations precisely because they act so differently from humans?Meaningful Futures with Robots: Designing a New Coexistence provides insight into the opportunities and risks that arise from living with robots in the future, anchored in current research projects on everyday robotics. As well as generating ideas for robot developers and designers, it also critically discusses existing theories and methods for social robotics from different perspectives - ethical, design, artistical and technological â and presents new approaches to meaningful human-robot interaction design.Key Features: Provides insights into current Table of Contents1. Towards Designing Meaningful Relationships with Robots 2. Concept and Content of the Book Part 1 Designing a New Species Interaction Design and Product Design of Robots 3. How to Design Robots with Superpowers Robin Neuhaus, Ronda Ringfort Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl 4. Social Robots Should Mediate, not Replace, Social Interactions Timo Kaerlein 5. Neither Human Nor Computer —A Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaboration in Autism Therapy Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Judith Dörrenbächer 6. Counting Characters and Spaces—On Robot Disabilities, Robot Care, and Technological Dependencies Lenneke Kuijer 7. Designing Robots with Personality Lara Christoforakos, Sarah Diefenbach, Daniel Ullrich 8. Designing Robots as Social Counterparts— A Discussion about a Technology Claiming its Own Needs Lara Christoforakos, Tobias Störzinger 9. Falling in Love With a Machine— What Happens if the Only Affection a Person Gets is From Machines? Felix Carros (F.C.), Anne Wierling (A.W.), Adrian Preussner (A.P.) 10. I am Listening to You!—How to Make Different Robotic Species Speak the Same Language Judith Dörrenbächer, Anne Wierling 11. How to Really Get in Touch with Robots—Haptic Interaction Technologies for VR and Teleoperation Bernhard Weber, Thomas Hulin, Lisa Schiffer Part 2 Designing Future Enviroments—Social Innovation Initiated by Robots 12. Design Fiction—The Future of Robots Needs Imagination Ronda Ringfort-Felner, Robin Neuhaus, Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl 13. Cramer’s Funeral Service for Androids Uwe Post 14. Googly Eyes Marc Hassenzahl 15 Empathizing with Robots—Animistic and Performative Methods to Anticipate a Robot’s Impact Judith Dörrenbächer, Marc Hassenzahl 16. From the Lab to a Real-World Supermarket— About Anticipating the Chances and Challenges of a Shopping Robot Robin Neuhaus, Judith Dörrenbächer 17. Dominant, Persuasive or Polite?— About Human Curiosity, Provocative Users and Solving Conflicts between Humans and Robots Judith Dörrenbächer 18. Seven Observations, or Why Domestic Robots are Struggling to Enter the Habitats of Everyday Life James Auger 19. Is this a Patient or a Wall?— Adapting Robots from an Industrial Context to a Rehabilitation Clinic Jochen Feitsch, Bernhard Weber 20. Robotics x Book Studies Imagining a Robotic Archive of Embodied Knowledge Corinna Norrick-Rühl 21. "That’s the Future, I’m Telling You.” Antje Herden 22. Graphic Recording Cool Johanna Benz Part 3 Designing together with People— Civic Participation and Ethical Implications Concerning Robots 23. Citizen Participation in Social Robotics Research Felix Carros, Johanna Langendorf, Dave Randall, Rainer Wieching, Volker Wulf 24. Learning from Each Other— How Roboticists Learn from Users and how Users Teach their Robots Felix Carros, Adrian Preussner 25. My Friend Simsala, the Robot Edi Haug, Laura M. Schwengber 26. Move Away from the Stereotypical User in the Picture-perfect Scenario—A Plea for Early and Broad User Integration Stephanie Häusler Weiss, Kilian Röhm, Tobias Störzinger 27. Is it Good?— A Philosophical Approach Towards Ethics Centered- Design (ECD) Catrin Misselhorn, Manuel Scheidegger, Tobias Störzinger 28. Are Robots Good at Everything? A Robot in an Elementary School Elke Buttgereit 29. The Medium has a Message Educational Robots in a Didactic Triangle Scarlet Schaffrath 30. The Friendly Siblings of Workhorses and Killer Robots—About Becoming Alive Through the Nonliving, and Feeling Blessed by a Religious Machine Ilona Nord
£42.74
Simon & Schuster The Innovators
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£18.89
SAP Press Clean ABAP
Book SynopsisABAP developers, are you looking to clean up your code? Then pick up this official companion to the Clean ABAP GitHub repository. This book is brimming with best practices, straight from the experts, to help you write effective ABAP code.
£60.29
Wolfram Media Inc Hands on Start to Wolframalpha Notebook Edition
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MIT Press Ltd Learning Theory from First Principles
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and cutting-edge introduction to the foundations and modern applications of learning theory.Research has exploded in the field of machine learning resulting incomplex mathematical arguments that are hard to grasp for new comers.. In this accessible textbook, Francis Bach presents the foundations and latest advances of learning theory for graduate students as well as researchers who want to acquire a basic mathematical understanding of the most widely used machine learning architectures. Taking the position that learning theory does not exist outside of algorithms that can be run in practice, this book focuses on the theoretical analysis of learning algorithms as it relates to their practical performance. Bach provides the simplest formulations that can be derived from first principles, constructing mathematically rigorous results and proofs without overwhelming students.Provides a balanced and unified treatment of most prevalent machine learning methods Emphasizes practical application and features only commonly used algorithmic frameworks Covers modern topics not found in existing texts, such as overparameterized models and structured prediction Integrates coverage of statistical theory, optimization theory, and approximation theory Focuses on adaptivity, allowing distinctions between various learning techniques Hands-on experiments, illustrative examples, and accompanying code link theoretical guarantees to practical behaviors
£72.20
Barcharts, Inc Python Programming Language
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SAP Press Central Finance and SAP S4HANA
Book SynopsisAre you starting your SAP S/4HANA journey? If deploying Central Finance is your first step, get the answers you need to the questions you have. With step-by-step instructions for implementation and tips for project management, this is your one-stop shop for everything Central Finance.
£73.10
Crown The Technological Republic
Book SynopsisINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology’s potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats“Not since Allan Bloom’s astonishingly successful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind—more than one million copies sold—has there been a cultural critique as sweeping as Karp’s.”—George F. Will, The Washington PostSilicon Valley has lost its way.Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West’s dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions.Today, the market rewards shallow engagement with the potential of technology. Engineers and founders build photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others. This complacency has spread into academia, politics, and the boardroom. The result? An entire generation for whom the narrow-minded pursuit of the demands of a late capitalist economy has become their calling.In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s success.Above all, our leaders must reject intellectual fragility and preserve space for ideological confrontation. A willingness to risk the disapproval of the crowd, Karp and Zamiska contend, has everything to do with technological and economic outperformance.At once iconoclastic and rigorous, this book will also lift the veil on Palantir and its broader political project from the inside, offering a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality.
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HarperCollins Publishers What Is CGI
Book SynopsisArtist Jon Stuart shows how he produces computer-generated images. The process starts with a simple block of cubes, which are added to, given texture, before being bent, stretched, twisted into the correct shape and size. He then adds background, lighting and colour to bring the whole scene to life.This is a Band 06/Orange book in the Collins Big Cat reading programme which offers varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages. This is an information book with a flow chart on pages 22 and 23 that summarises the process of producing CGI. Contents are listed on page 1 while a glossary and index are detailed on pages 20 and 21. This book supports learning around art and design, and investigates different kinds of art, design and craft. It also supports ICT education, and is an introduction to modelling and creating pictures. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. For more guided reading books in this Collins Big Cat band, try Pompeii (9780007461875) writte
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HarperCollins UK Collins International Primary Computing
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HarperCollins UK Collins International Primary Computing
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HarperCollins UK International Lower Secondary Computing Teachers
Book SynopsisThe Stage 8 Teacher's Guide offers comprehensive teacher support, providing everything needed to teach with confidence using the Collins International Lower Secondary Computing Stage 8 Student's Book and Workbook.Collins International Lower Secondary Computing series provides in-depth coverage of the Cambridge curriculum frameworks Lower Secondary Computing (0860) and Lower Secondary Digital Literacy (0082), as well as the UK national curriculum for Computing at secondary level.The course is organised around six themes relating to computing and digital literacy Our digital world; Content creation; Create with code; How computers work; Connect the world; The power of data. The chapter overviews and lesson summaries show how these themes are developed in Stage 8, helping teachers to plan their course.The Teacher's Guide offers a detailed lesson plan for every unit, giving guidance on how to run the session, including lesson objectives, reference to key pedagogies, mapping grids, worksheets, resource sheets, answers, support for assessing end-of-chapter projects and Build on this' extension activities.The lesson plans and introduction provide valuable subject knowledge and support for non-specialists. This includes summaries of the key computing pedagogies used in the resources, and references to further reading to develop teachers' own practice.Built around an internationally sound pedagogy, this framework for teaching provides real-life contexts and culturally responsive examples into a project-based approach and incorporates all learners' knowledge, ways of learning, and heritage; where learners are given more of an opportunity to choose appropriate contexts for themselves.The accompanying downloads, available on the Collins site, includes PDF and editable Word versions of all the resources in the Teacher's Guide, to print and adapt, as well as source files, mapping grids, worksheets, resource sheets and recommended sites to support practical tasks with a host of resources to supplement teaching.Written by Laura Sach, a female expert, who has a breadth of computing experience across industry, education and research, and her culturally responsive approach provides teachers with an accessible and inclusive learning experience for all ages and inspires greater participation and tech career pathways for all.Supports teachers to prepare learners for a seamless transition to Lower Secondary Computing Stage 9.
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HarperCollins UK Collins International Lower Secondary Computing
Book SynopsisThe Stage 9 Teacher's Guide offers comprehensive teacher support, providing everything needed to teach with confidence using the Collins International Lower Secondary Computing Stage 9 Student's Book and Workbook.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The Digital Doctor Hope Hype and Harm at the Dawn
Book SynopsisThe New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcareâs #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the USWhile modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcareâs ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization â until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of Americaâs leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absTable of ContentsPreface xiChapter 1: On Call 1Chapter 2: Shovel Ready 9Part One - The NoteChapter 3: The iPatient 23Chapter 4: The Note 29Chapter 5: Strangers at the Bedside 35Chapter 6: Radiology Rounds 47Chapter 7: Go Live 65Chapter 8: Unanticipated Consequences 71Part Two - Decisions and DataChapter 9: Can Computers Replace the Physician’s Brain? 93Chapter 10: David and Goliath 105Chapter 11: Big Data 115Part Three - The OverdoseChapter 12: The Error 127Chapter 13: The System 131Chapter 14: The Doctor 135Chapter 15: The Pharmacist 139Chapter 16: The Alerts 143Chapter 17: The Robot 155Chapter 18: The Nurse 159Chapter 19: The Patient 165Part Four - The Connected PatientChapter 20: OpenNotes 171Chapter 21: Personal Health Records and Patient Portals 183Chapter 22: A Community of Patients 195Part Five - The Players and the PoliciesChapter 23: Meaningful Use 205Chapter 24: Epic and athena 219Chapter 25: Silicon Valley Meets Healthcare 235Chapter 26: The Productivity Paradox 243Part Six - Toward a Brighter FutureChapter 27: A Vision for Health Information Technology 257Chapter 28: The Nontechnological Side of Making Health IT Work 267Chapter 29: Art and Science 271Acknowledgments 281Notes 285National Coordinators for Health Information Technology 309People Interviewed 311Bibliography 319Illustration Credits 321Index 323
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Management Information Systems
Book SynopsisOverview: The benchmark text for the syllabus organised by technology (a week on databases, a week on networks, a week on systems development, etc.) taught from a managerial perspective. O'Brien defines technology and then explains how companies use the technology to improve performance. Real world cases finalise the explanation.Table of ContentsMODULE I Foundation Concepts 1.Foundations of Information Systems in BusinessSection I Foundation Concepts: Information Systems in BusinessSection II Foundation Concepts: The Components of Information Systems2.Competing with Information TechnologySection I Fundamentals of Strategic AdvantageSection II Using Information Technology for Strategic AdvantageMODULE II Information Technologies3.Computer HardwareSection I Computer Systems: End User and Enterprise ComputingSection II Computer Peripherals: Input, Output, and Storage Technologies4.Computer SoftwareSection I Application Software: End-User ApplicationsSection II System Software: Computer System Management5.Data Resource ManagementSection I Technical Foundations of Database ManagementSection II Managing Data Resources6.Telecommunications and NetworksSection I The Networked EnterpriseSection II Telecommunications Network AlternativesMODULE III Business Applications7.E-Business SystemsSection I e-Business SystemsSection II Functional Business Systems8.Enterprise Business SystemsSection I Getting All the Geese Lined Up: Managing at the Enterprise LevelSection II Enterprise Resource Planning: The Business BackboneSection III Supply Chain Management: The Business Network9.E-Commerce SystemsSection I e-Commerce FundamentalsSection II e-Commerce Applications and Issues10. Supporting Decision MakingSection I Decision Support in BusinessSection II Artificial Intelligence Technologies in BusinessMODULE IV Development Processes11. Developing Business/IT StrategiesSection I Planning FundamentalsSection II Implementation Challenges12.Developing Business/IT SolutionsSection I Developing Business SystemsSection II Implementing Business Systems MODULE V Management Challenges13.Security and Ethical ChallengesSection I Security, Ethical, and Societal Challenges of ITSection II Security Management of Information Technology14.Enterprise and Global Management of Information TechnologySection I Managing Information TechnologySection II Managing Global IT
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McGraw-Hill Education Introduction to Information Systems Loose Leaf
Book SynopsisThe benchmark text for the syllabus organized by technology (a week on databases, a week on networks, a week on systems development, etc.) taught from a managerial perspective. OâBrien defines technology and then explains how companies use the technology to improve performance. Real world cases finalize the explanation.
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Elsevier Science Business Intelligence Guidebook
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anyone tasked with business intelligence and data integration will want this outstanding introduction and guidebook…An established professional will also not be disappointed with the fresh how-to look. I highly recommend it." --Computing Reviews "The world of architecture and technology is rapidly changing and has been for a while. Fortunately we have people like Rick Sherman who stay abreast of the latest advances. This book is as close to a complete A to Z guidebook as you will find. I recommend this book for every professional's desk." --Bill Inmon, Forest Rim Technology "Rick covers a lot of ground in the BI Guidebook offering clear explanations of a wide range of BI and DW topics (e.g., technologies, methodologies). His approach makes it both a useful primer for those new to Business Intelligence as well as a great reference for more seasoned pros." --Howard Dresner, Chief Research Officer Dresner Advisory Services "Anyone looking to rollout a business intelligence initiative or shore up a fledgling one can benefit from the BI Guidebook. Rick Sherman leaves no stone unturned and takes a deep dive into a complex and diverse field. Even a seasoned BI professional will enjoy having this book as a reference within arm's reach." --William McNight "One cannot manage a business or run any organization without measurement: knowing where you'v been, where you are and where you are going. But while BI is the key enabler for such quantitative enterprise management, it remains one of the more complicated areas of information technology. BI encompasses a wide range of expertise from the technical mastery of building data models to the psychological finesse of resolving conflicts between IT and business people. This is why educating the market on best practices is so important, and why Forrester encourages reading and studying books that arm people with the knowledge they need to tackle the myriad challenges of implementing BI projects. This book, particularly, confirms Forrester’s position that data is a vital tool and a corporate asset that should have direct impact on enterprise top and bottom lines, as well as balance sheets." --Boris Evelson, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.Table of ContentsConcepts and Context 1 Introduction Business and Technical Needs 2 Justifying BI (Building Business and Technical Case 3 Defining Requirements - Business, Data and Quality Architectural Framework 4 Architecture Introduction 5 Information Architecture 6 Data Architecture 7 Technology and Product Architectures Data Design 8 Foundational Data Modeling 9 Dimensional Modeling 10 Advanced Dimensional Modeling Data Integration Design 11 Data Integration Processes 12 Data Integration Design & Development BI Design 13 BI Applications 14 BI Design & Development 15 Advanced Analytics 16 Data Shadow Systems Organization 17 People, Process and Politics 18 Project Management 19 Centers of Excellence
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Elsevier Science Cyber Warfare
Book SynopsisEvery one of our systems is under attack from multiple vectors - our defenses must be ready all the time and our alert systems must detect the threats every time. This book provides concrete examples and real-world guidance on how to identify and defend your network against malicious attacks.Trade Review"A fifth domain of war has been added to land, air, sea and space: cyber. Malware capable of taking a nuclear program offline was science fiction 5 years ago: Stuxnet demonstrates that information security is now a matter of national security. This timely and necessary book provides an assessment of the current state of cyber warfare, and more importantly, where the conflict is heading. Highly recommended for information security professionals." --Eric Conrad, Lead Author, CISSP Study Guide, President, Backshore CommunicationsTable of ContentsForeword Introduction Chapter 1. What is Cyber Warfare? Chapter 2. The Cyberspace Battlefield Chapter 3. Cyber Doctrine Chapter 4. Cyber Warriors Chapter 5. Logical Weapons Chapter 6. Physical Weapons Chapter 7. Psychological Weapons Chapter 8. Computer Network Exploitation Chapter 9. Computer Network Attack Chapter 10. Computer Network Defense Chapter 11. Non-State Actors in Computer Network Operations Chapter 12. Legal System Impacts Chapter 13. Ethics Chapter 14. Cyberspace Challenges Chapter 15. The Future of Cyber War Appendix: Cyber Timeline
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Elsevier Science Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit
Trade Review"... this book is well written and easy to read…has some material of interest to experts…"--Computing Reviews, Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit, 4th Edition "...technical detail is extensive here and those realworld examples mentioned earlier are worked through in intricate detail. You will definitely want to try this at home…" -Network Security, Nov 2014Table of ContentsAnalysis Concepts Immediate Response Volume Shadow Copies File Analysis Registry Analysis Malware Detection Timeline Analysis Application Analysis Reporting
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Elsevier Science Understanding Your Users
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The first edition became my ‘go-to’ book for mastering user requirements gathering. Ten years later, this second edition is even better. Don’t leave your office without it!" --Joe Dumas, Editor in Chief, Journal of Usability Studies "Do you believe in driving while blindfolded? That's what you're doing if you design and market a technological product without studying your target users and tasks. This book is a comprehensive handbook on the "why" and "how" of user research, illustrated with vivid real-world examples. Don't drive your design project while blindfolded. Get this book, read it, and follow its prescriptions. It will repay its cost many times over." --Jeff Johnson, author of GUI Bloopers 2.0 and Designing with the Mind in Mind "Very authoritative, this work combines the experience of senior practitioners and an academic, with lots of specific guidelines, tips and examples, and with pointers to other readings for deeper insights. Useful for students and practitioners alike, this should be on everyone's bookshelf. The authors do a great job of explaining the importance of business-side stakeholders (C-suite, marketing, sales, development) and how to speak their language." --James D. Foley, Professor, College of Computing, Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications, Georgia Institute of Technology "Understanding Your Users is a thorough guide to user experience for designers both technical and non-technical. Instructors, students and practitioners will find this book very useful to your success as an user experience expert." --Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair, Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department, University of Florida "Understanding Your Users is handbook of practical wisdom for the serious human centered design practitioner. This second edition includes updated content around emerging best practices. It is a must have in any design team’s library." --Janaki Kumar, Head of Strategic Design Services, America, Design and Co-Innovation Center, SAP Labs Palo Alto "With the massive expansion of digital products, new processes for faster development cycles, and competition that can appear out of nowhere in days, the product design has become the major differentiator, and key to success. Understanding your end user is more important than it ever has been, how they really work, and how your assumptions match up to their reality. This book takes tried and true methodology and shows how any or all of it can be applied to your products now." --Jeremy Ashley, VP, Oracle Cloud UX "A great introductory book for anyone wishing to understand and engage in traditional user research methods. The language is clear and straightforward, allowing the reader to try and use the methods on their own project. Each method is accompanied with an extensive bibliography allowing the curious mind to further delve into any of the described methods. Samples of forms, letters and examples enhance the practical nature of the book, making this title a staple for the beginning practitioner." --Joseph Kramer is a Service Design Lead at Fjord - Design and Innovation from Accenture Interactive "The difference between product success and failure often comes down to the user experience. Baxter, Courage, and Cain share the methods you need to better understand your users so that you can design delightful experiences." --Craig Villamor, Chief Design Architect at Salesforce.comTable of ContentsPart 1: What You Need to Know Before Choosing An Activity 1. Introduction to User Experience 2. Before You Choose an Activity: Learning About Your Product and Users 3. Ethical and Legal Considerations 4. Setting Up Research Facilities 5. Choosing a User Experience Research Activity Part 2: Get Up and Running 6. Preparing For Your User Research Activity 7. During Your User Research Activity Part 3: The Methods 8. Diary Studies 9. Interviews 10. Surveys 11. Card Sorting 12. Focus Groups 13. Field Studies 14. Evaluating Methods Part 4: Wrapping Up 15. Concluding Final Part 5: Appendices Appendix A. Requirements for Creating a Participant Recruitment Database Appendix B. Report Template Appendix C. Glossary Appendix D. References
£44.64
Elsevier Science The Definitive Guide to ARMÂ CortexÂM0 and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...if you’re new to these components,...buy the book. It will give you the insight you need to be productive on real projects." --EmbeddedTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Technical Overview 3 Introduction to Embedded Software Development 4 Architecture 5 Instruction Set 6 Instruction Usage Examples 7 Memory System 8 Exceptions and Interrupts 9 System Control and Low Power Features 10 Operating System Support Features 11 Fault Handling 12 Memory Protection Unit (MPU) 13 Debug Features 14 Getting Started with the Keil Microcontroller Development Kit 15 Getting Started with IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM 16 Getting Started with gcc (GNU Compiler Collection) 17 Getting Started with mbed 18 Programming examples 19 Ultra-Low Power Designs 20 Programming with Embedded OS 21 Mixed Language Projects (C/C++ with assembly) 22 Software porting 23 Advanced topics Appendices A Instruction set quick reference B Exception types quick reference C CMSIS-Core quick reference D NVIC, SCB and SysTick registers quick reference E Debug registers quick reference F Debug connector arrangements G Trouble shooting H A breadboard project with an ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller
£48.44
Elsevier Science Windows Registry Forensics
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Registry Analysis 2. Processes and Tools 3. Case Studies: The System 4. Case Studies: Tracking User Activity 5. RegRipper
£49.49
Elsevier Science & Technology Data Mining
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...this volume is the most accessible introduction to data mining to appear in recent years. It is worthy of a fourth edition." --Computing ReviewsTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction to data mining 1. What’s it all about? 2. Input: Concepts, instances, attributes 3. Output: Knowledge representation 4. Algorithms: The basic methods 5. Credibility: Evaluating what’s been learned Part II. More advanced machine learning schemes 6. Trees and rules 7. Extending instance-based and linear models 8. Data transformations 9. Probabilistic methods 10. Deep learning 11. Beyond supervised and unsupervised learning 12. Ensemble learning 13. Moving on: applications and beyond
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Elsevier Science Relational Database Design and Implementation
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. The Database Environment 2. Systems Analysis and Database Requirements Part II: Relational database design theory 3. Why Good Design Matters 4. Entities and Relationships 5. The Relational Data Model 6. Relational Algebra 7. Normalization 8. Database Design and Performance Tuning 9. Codd’s Rules for Relational DBMSs Part III: Relational database design practice 10. Introduction to SQL 11. Using SQL to Implement a Relational Design 12. Using CASE Tools for Database Design 13. Database Design Case Study #1: Mighty-Mite Motors 14. Database Design Case Study #2: East Coast Aquarium 15. Database Design Case Study #3: SmartMart Part IV: Using interactive SQL to manipulate a relational database 16. Simple SQL Retrieval 17. Retrieving Data from More Than One Table 18. Advanced Retrieval Operations 19. Working With Groups of Rows 20. Data Modification 21. Creating Additional Structural Elements Part V: Database implementation issues 22. Concurrency Control 23. Database Security 24. Data Warehousing 25. Data Quality Part VI: Beyond the relational data model 26. XML Support 27. Object-Relational Databases 28. Relational Databases and “Big Data: The Alternative of a NoSQL Solution Part VII: Appendices A. Historical Antecedents B. SQL Programming C. SQL Syntax Summary
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Pearson Education Prentice Hall Office 2013 Shortcut Card
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Pearson Education (US) Technology In Action Complete
Book SynopsisFor introductory courses in computer concepts, digital literacy, or computer literacy, often including instruction in Microsoft Office. Using technology to teach technology Explore, discover, and experience technology with Technology in Action, the best seller that uses technology to teach
£159.50
Pearson Education Using Artificial Intelligence Absolute Beginners
Book SynopsisMichael Miller has written more than 200 books over the past four decades, including many in the Absolute Beginner's Guide series and almost two dozen books with AARP. His books have collectively sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. He has a particular interest in new and evolving technologies, so writing about AI is right up his alley. His readers say he has a knack for explaining complex technologies in easy-to-understand terms, and he has no reason to argue with that. He is an older gentleman, which means he's been around long enough to experience many different new technologies. (He has been writing for four decades; he wrote one of the first books about the Internet when it was new!) He lives with his wife and random daily combinations of four stepchildren and eight grandchildren in a suburb of the Twin Cities in the often-frozen land of Minnesota. In his spare time, he plays drums, entertains (and is entertained by) his grandchildren, and
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Pearson Education (US) Building a FutureProof Cloud Infrastructure
Book SynopsisSilvano Gai, who grew up in a small village near Asti, Italy, has more than 35 years of experience in computer engineering and computer networks. He is the author of several books and technical publications on computer networking as well as multiple Internet Drafts and RFCs. He is responsible for 50 issued patents. His background includes seven years as a full professor of Computer Engineering, tenure track, at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and seven years as a researcher at the CNR (Italian National Council for Scientific Research). For the past 20 years, he has been in Silicon Valley where, in the position of Cisco Fellow, he was an architect of the Cisco Catalyst family of network switches, of the Cisco MDS family of storage networking switches, of the Nexus family of data center switches, and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). Silvano is currently a Fellow with Pensando Systems.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction to Distributed Platforms 1.1 The Need for a Distributed Services Platform 1.2 The Precious CPU Cycles 1.3 The Case for Domain-Specific Hardware 1.4 Using Appliances 1.5 Attempts at Defining a Distributed Services Platform 1.6 Requirements for a Distributed Services Platform 1.7 Summary Chapter 2: Network Design 2.1 Bridging and Routing 2.1.1 L2 Forwarding 2.1.2 L3 Forwarding 2.1.3 LPM Forwarding in Hardware 2.1.4 VRF 2.2 Clos Topology 2.3 Overlays 2.3.1 IP in IP 2.3.2 GRE 2.3.3 Modern Encapsulations 2.3.4 VXLAN 2.3.5 MTU Considerations 2.4 Secure Tunnels 2.5 Where to Terminate the Encapsulation 2.6 Segment Routing 2.7 Using Discrete Appliance for Services 2.7.1 Tromboning with VXLAN 2.7.2 Tromboning with VRF 2.7.3 Hybrid Tromboning 2.8 Cache-Based Forwarding 2.9 Generic Forwarding Table 2.10 Summary 2.11 Bibliography Chapter 3: Virtualization 3.1 Virtualization and Clouds 3.2 Virtual Machines and Hypervisors 3.2.1 VMware ESXi 3.2.2 Hyper-V 3.2.3 QEMU 3.2.4 KVM 3.2.5 XEN 3.3 Containers 3.3.1 Docker and Friends 3.3.2 Kata Containers 3.3.3 Container Network Interface 3.3.4 Kubernetes 3.4 The Microservice Architecture 3.4.1 REST API 3.4.2 gRPC 3.5 OpenStack 3.6 NFV 3.7 Summary 3.8 Bibliography Chapter 4: Network Virtualization Services 4.1 Introduction to Networking Services 4.2 Software-Defined Networking 4.2.1 OpenFlow 4.2.2 SD-WAN 4.2.3 gRIBI 4.2.4 Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) 4.3 Virtual Switches 4.3.1 Open vSwitch (OVS) 4.3.2 tc-flower 4.3.3 DPDK RTE Flow Filtering 4.3.4 VPP (Vector Packet Processing) 4.3.5 BPF and eBPF 4.3.6 XDP 4.3.7 Summary on Virtual Switches 4.4 Stateful NAT 4.5 Load Balancing 4.6 Troubleshooting and Telemetry 4.7 Summary 4.8 Bibliography Chapter 5: Security Services 5.1 Distributed Firewalls 5.2 Microsegmentation 5.3 TLS Everywhere 5.4 Symmetric Encryption 5.5 Asymmetric Encryption 5.6 Digital Certificates 5.7 Hashing 5.8 Secure Key Storage 5.9 PUF 5.10 TCP/TLS/HTTP Implementation 5.11 Secure Tunnels 5.11.1 IPsec 5.11.2 TLS 5.11.3 DTLS 5.12 VPNs 5.13 Secure Boot 5.14 Summary 5.15 Bibliography Chapter 6: Distributed Storage and RDMA Services 6.1 RDMA and RoCE 6.1.1 RDMA Architecture Overview 6.1.2 RDMA Transport Services 6.1.3 RDMA Operations 6.1.4 RDMA Scalability 6.1.5 RoCE 6.1.6 RoCE vs iWARP 6.1.7 RDMA Deployments 6.1.8 RoCEv2 and Lossy Networks 6.1.9 Continued Evolution of RDMA 6.2 Storage 6.2.1 The Advent of SSDs 6.2.2 NVMe over Fabrics 6.2.3 Data Plane Model of Storage Protocols 6.2.4 Remote Storage Meets Virtualization 6.2.5 Distributed Storages Services 6.2.6 Storage Security 6.2.7 Storage Efficiency 6.2.8 Storage Reliability 6.2.9 Offloading and Distributing Storage Services 6.2.10 Persistent Memory as a New Storage Tier 6.3 Summary 6.4 Bibliography Chapter 7: CPUs and Domain-Specific Hardware 7.1 42 Years of Microprocessor Trend Data 7.2 Moore’s Law 7.3 Dennard Scaling 7.4 Amdahl’s Law 7.5 Other Technical Factors 7.6 Putting It All Together 7.7 Is Moore’s Law Dead or Not? 7.8 Domain-specific Hardware 7.9 Economics of the Server 7.10 Summary 7.11 Bibliography Chapter 8: NIC Evolution 8.1 Understanding Server Buses 8.2 Comparing NIC Form Factors 8.2.1 PCI Plugin Cards 8.2.2 Proprietary Mezzanine Cards 8.2.3 OCP Mezzanine Cards 8.2.4 Lan On Motherboard 8.3 Looking at the NIC Evolution 8.4 Using Single Root Input/Output Virtualization 8.5 Using Virtual I/O 8.6 Defining “SmartNIC” 8.7 Summary 8.8 Bibliography Chapter 9: Implementing a DS Platform 9.1 Analyzing the Goals for a Distributed Services Platform 9.1.1 Services Everywhere 9.1.2 Scaling 9.1.3 Speed 9.1.4 Low Latency 9.1.5 Low Jitter 9.1.6 Minimal CPU Load 9.1.7 Observability and Troubleshooting Capability 9.1.8 Manageability 9.1.9 Host Mode versus Network Mode 9.1.10 PCIe Firewall 9.2 Understanding Constraints 9.2.1 Virtualized versus Bare-metal Servers 9.2.2 Greenfield versus Brownfield Deployment 9.2.3 The Drivers 9.2.4 PCIe-only Services 9.2.5 Power Budget 9.3 Determining the Target User 9.3.1 Enterprise Data Centers 9.3.2 Cloud Providers and Service Providers 9.4 Understanding DSN Implementations 9.4.1 DSN in Software 9.4.2 DSN Adapter 9.4.3 DSN Bump-in-the-Wire 9.4.4 DSN in Switch 9.4.5 DSNs in an Appliance 9.5 Summary 9.6 Bibliography Chapter 10: DSN Hardware Architectures 10.1 The Main Building Blocks of a DSN 10.2 Identifying the Silicon Sweet Spot 10.2.1 The 16 nm Process 10.2.2 The 7 nm Process 10.3 Choosing an Architecture 10.4 Having a Sea of CPU Cores 10.5 Understanding Field-Programmable Gate Arrays 10.6 Using Application-Specific Integrated Circuits 10.7 Determining DSN Power Consumption 10.8 Determining Memory Needs 10.8.1 Host Memory 10.8.2 External DRAM 10.8.3 On-chip DRAM 10.8.4 Memory Bandwidth Requirements 10.9 Summary 10.10 Bibliography Chapter 11: The P4 Domain-Specific Language 11.1 P4 Version 16 11.2 Using the P4 Language 11.3 Getting to Know the Portable Switch Architecture 11.4 Looking at a P4 Example 11.5 Implementing the P4Runtime API 11.6 Understanding the P4 INT 11.7 Extending P4 11.7.1 Portable NIC Architecture 11.7.2 Language Composability 11.7.3 Better Programming and Development Tools 11.8 Summary 11.9 Bibliography Chapter 12: Management Architectures for DS Platforms 12.1 Architectural Traits of a Management Control Plane 12.2 Declarative Configuration 12.3 Building a Distributed Control Plane as a Cloud-Native Application 12.4 Monitoring and Troubleshooting 12.5 Securing the Management Control Plane 12.6 Ease of Deployment 12.7 Performance and Scale 12.8 Failure Handling 12.9 API Architecture 12.10 Federation 12.10.1 Scaling a Single SDSP 12.10.2 Distributed Multiple SDSPs 12.10.3 Federation of Multiple SDSPs 12.11 Scale and Performance Testing 12.12 Summary 12.13 Bibliography Index
£34.19
Pearson Education (US) Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book 2023
Book SynopsisBrie Gyncild aims to make technical information accessible to those who need it. Brie has authored The Photoshop CS5 Pocket Guide and The Photoshop Elements 8 Pocket Guide. She has also co-written The Photoshop Show Starring Russell Brown; numerous editions of the Classroom in a Book series on Photoshop, After Effects, and Acrobat; and several editions of the How to Wow series. Lisa Fridsma has long loved the process of teaching others to use Adobe product. She has written, edited, and designed more than thirty books in the Classroom in a Book series over the last decade and a half (including books on Photoshop and After Effects), going back to her time on staff at Adobe. She's currently the owner of Darlington Hill Productions (informational illustrations and publishing).Table of ContentsGetting Started Getting to Know the Workflow Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets Animating Text Working with Shape Layers Animating a Multimedia Presentation Animating Layers Working with Masks Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools Using the Roto Brush Tool Adjusting Color and Mood Creating Motion Graphics Templates Using 3D Features Working with the 3D Camera Tracker Advanced Editing Techniques Rendering and Outputting
£41.64
Penguin Random House India Mastering the Data Paradox
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£27.70
Oxford University Press India Connected How the Smartphone Is
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£27.92
Oxford University Press Inc Computer Arithmetic
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Part I: NUMBER REPRESENTATION 1. Numbers and Arithmetic 2. Representing Signed Numbers 3. Redundant Number Systems 4. Residue Number Systems Part II: ADDITION/SUBTRACTION 5. Basic Addition and Counting 6. Carry - Lookahead Adders 7. Variations in Fast Adders 8. Multioperand Addition Part III: MULTIPLICATION 9. Basic Multiplication Schemes 10. High - Radix Multipliers 11. Tree and Array Multipliers 12. Variations in Multipliers Part IV: DIVISION 13. Basic Division Schemes 14. High - Radix Dividers 15. Variations in Dividers 16. Division by Convergence PART V: REAL ARITHMETIC 17. Floating - Point Representations 18. Floating - Point Operations 19. Errors and Error Control 20. Precise and Certifiable Arithmetic PART VI: FUNCTION EVALUATION 21. Square - Rooting Methods 22. The CORDIC Algorithms 23. Variations in Function Evaluation 24. Arithmetic by Table Lookup 25. High - Throughput Arithmetic PART VII: IMPLEMENTATION TOPICS 26. Low - Power Arithmetic 27. Fault - Tolerant Arithmetic 28. Reconfigurable Arithmetic APPENDIX: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE A.1 Historical Perspective A.2 Early High - Performance Machine A.3 Deeply Pipelined Vector Machines A.4 The DSP Revolution A.5 Supercomputers on Our Laps A.6 Trends Outlook and Resources
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Oxford University Press TouchIT
Book SynopsisDigital technology is fundamentally altering the world we live in, but can only be truly understood in relation to the physical world we all inhabit. The most successful future products and policies will be those that take this rich digital/physical ecology seriously.The physical world is increasingly filled with digital products to the extent that the boundaries of digital and physical reality become blurred. From mundane devices such as mobile phones and washing machines, to esoteric research including tangible computation and body implants, we continually bridge two worlds literally touching buttons and dials and simultaneously interacting with the digital systems that lie behind them. The connection between pure thought and abstract information is through solid keyboard and mouse; but likewise the material world of buildings, cars and running shoes is suffused with computation through sensors, displays and flashing LEDs. How do people understand this world and how can designers create usable hybrid physical-digital products?TouchIT brings together insights from human-computer interaction and industrial design, exploring these themes under four main headings: human body and mind; objects and things; space; and information and computation. In considering each, the authors look into the underlying physical processes, our human understanding of them, and then the way these inform and are informed by digital design. The end draws together the theoretical and practical implications of this for design, including practical advice, potential tools, and philosophical underpinnings.Trade ReviewDesign lessons, recommended design tools and modeling approaches, and summarized highlights conclude the book. Color figures and sidebars enrich this engaging, excellent study of design. * Choice *Table of Contents1: Elements of our hybrid existence 2: What's Happening Now 3: Body 4: Mind 5: Body and Mind 6: Social, Organisational and Cultural 7: Physicality of Things 8: Interacting with Physical Objects 9: Hybrid Devices 10: Tools, Equipment, and Machines 11: Physicality of Space 12: Comprehension of Space 13: The Built Environment 14: Digital Augmentation of Space 15: Representation and Language 16: Reproducibility 17: Embodied Computation 18: Connecting physical and digital worlds 19: Design Lessons and Advice 20: Prototyping and Tool Support 21: Computational Modelling and Implementation 22: Theory and Philosophy of Physicality
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